Viral Images: Photographers Document Covid-19

Look around you. Regardless of where you are in the world, things have probably changed a lot in a short space of time.

We stand in a physically distanced queue outside the supermarket. The silent streets feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic film.

We miss hugging our friends. We spend way too much time in our pyjamas.

This is life in lockdown. Behind it, one tiny virus – invisible to the naked eye.

With so much strangeness and uncertainty happening around the world right now, we think it’s important to keep taking photos, keep creating, and keep sharing a little bit of our experience with each other.

Because sharing promotes understanding. And documenting historical moments allows us to look back as a way to move forward.

That’s why we asked professional photographers around the world to contribute their photos of life during the Coronavirus, COVID-19.

Here’s what they shared.

Leah Phillips | Lonely Coney Island | Brooklyn, USA

Mark Forbes | Beautiful Solitude | Unknown

Ivan Joshua Loh | Supermarket | Singapore

When Singapore raised the COVID status up a notch, everyone went into panic mode. Every supermarket was swept clean.

Ivan Joshua Loh | Migrant workers all mask up as they continue with their daily work | Singapore

Markus Anderson | Desolate Carpark | West Sydney, Australia

Julian Kanz | Supermarket | Italy

Markus Hofstaetter | Wet Collodion print | Austria

James Day | Social distancing during the wedding reception | Sydney University, Australia

Eduardo Teixeira de Sousa | Street Walk | Lisbon, Portugal

Bill Hatcher | Uluru National Park | Uluru, Australia

The Park began free admission 17 March to attract tourist to this remote location. A week later Indigenous elders and park officials decided to close the park to protect local communities from COVID-19.

Sean Flanigan | A usually lively bar boarded up and closed for business | Tacoma, USA

Melissa Rey | Wedding | California, USA

The couple getting married with their officiant standing the required 6 ft away from them. Their quarantined neighbours decided to come watch too! Also pictured is In-N-Out by their feet as their reception dinner..

Mother attaches QuedateEnCasa (Stay Home) signs on her car as her daughter looks on from her car seat, then drives around city blasting “La Cumbia Del Coronavirus” by Mister Cumbia, a local PSA of sorts.

Sara Lacuesta | London, United Kingdom

A woman looks in dismay how shelves are emptying of all essential medicines and cleaning products. Selfish panic buying has being widely spread worldwide and London is no exception.

Great photos. My favorite is the shot of Highway 101 in Oregon by Matte Hanna. Such an excellent photographer. He has that instinct that helps him capture the intensity, the beauty, or the message with his camera.